Hungarian

//hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən// adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person from present-day Hungary or of ethnic Hungarian descent. countable
  2. 2
    the official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages wordnet
  3. 3
    A person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a native or inhabitant of Hungary wordnet
  5. 5
    The main language of Hungary. uncountable

    "I remember a conversation I had once with a friend who insisted that “nouns are declined but verbs are conjugated”; except in Hungarian you both decline and conjugate nouns, sometimes together."

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  1. 6
    Hungarian notation. informal, uncountable

    "The qualifier is the descriptive part of the name that would probably make up the entire name if you weren't using Hungarian."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, from, or pertaining to present-day Hungary, the ethnic Hungarian people or the Hungarian language. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of, from, or pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of ethnicity. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Of or relating to Hungarian notation. not-comparable

    "The Hungarian prefix used in this book for a GroupBox control is “grp”."

Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or characteristic of Hungary wordnet

Example

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"Pole and Hungarian - two good friends, joint fight and drinking are their ends."

Etymology

From Hungary + -an.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.